“New Alien Mediterranean Biodiversity Records” (November 2021)


FABIO CROCETTA
SARA A.A. AL MABRUK
ERNESTO AZZURRO
RIGERS BAKIU
MICHEL BARICHE
IOANNIS E. BATJAKAS
TAREK BEJAOUI
JAMILA BEN SOUISSI
JUSTIN CAUCHI
MARIA CORSINI-FOKA
ALAN DEIDUN
JULIAN EVANS
JOHANN GALDIES
RAOUIA GHANEM
THODOROS E. KAMPOURIS
STELIOS KATSANEVAKIS
GERASIMOS KONDYLATOS
LOVRENC LIPEJ
ANDREA LOMBARDO
GIULIANA MARLETTA
ENEID MEJDANI
SAVVAS NIKOLIDAKIS
PANAYOTIS OVALIS
LOTFI RABAOUI
MICHAIL RAGKOUSIS
MANJA ROGELJA
JOELLE SAKR
IOANNIS SAVVA
VALENTINA TANDUO
CEMAL TURAN
ALI UYAN
ARGYRO ZENETOS
Abstract

This Collective Article includes records of 29 alien and cryptogenic species in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to eight Phyla (Rhodophyta, Ochrophyta, Cnidaria, Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, and Chordata) and coming from 11 countries. Notes published here can be divided into three different categories: occupancy estimation for wide areas, new records for the Mediterranean Sea, and new records of species expanding within the Mediterranean Sea. The first category includes a visual survey held along the coastline of Peloponnese (Greece), which yielded records of 15 species. The second category includes the first Mediterranean records of the Coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch (Greece) and of the Arabian monocle bream Scolopsis ghanam (Tunisia). The third category includes new records for countries (Ganonema farinosum in Malta, Cassiopea andromeda in Libya, Cingulina isseli in Greece, Okenia picoensis in Italy, Callinectes sapidus in Slovenia, Charybdis cf. hellerii in Malta, Urocaridella pulchella in Cyprus, Ablennes hians and Aluterus monoceros in Lebanon, and Fistularia petimba in Greece and Lebanon), new records for MSFD areas or regional seas (Septifer cumingii in the Greek Ionian Sea and F. petimba in the Marmara Sea), and confirmation of old, doubtful, or spurious records/statements (Branchiomma luctuosum in Tunisia, Thalamita poissonii in the Saronikos Gulf, and Pterois miles in Albania). Noteworthy, the three new records of F. petimba suggest that it may soon spread further in the Mediterranean Sea, as already happened for its congeneric Fistularia commersonii. Distributional data reported here will help tracing colonization routes of alien species in the basin and may facilitate the development of mitigation measures.

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